Bob O'Donnell, an analyst with the research and consulting firm IDC, said online media companies could also benefit from the advent of flexible, lightweight screens.
[C1.] Mitsubishi to Announce TV That Uses Lasers Mitsubishi is scheduled to announce that it has developed a commercial television that uses colored lasers to display bright, deep images on large, thin, lightweight screens -- surpassing images seen on film.
At Smart Design, Scott Henderson, the director of industrial design, who organized the New York conference, suggested a lightweight screen that could be carried like a poster tube and unrolled into a portable pissoir.
Carrying around a lightweight screen that's utterly unattached to anything as video plays uninterrupted gives you the same strangely exhilarating feeling as using a cellphone for the first time or calling up your first Web page with a wireless laptop.
Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the "lightweight" screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.
According to Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Ascanio Condivi, the brackets and frame that supported the steps and flooring were all put in place at the beginning of the work and a lightweight screen, possibly cloth, was suspended beneath them to catch plaster drips, dust and splashes of paint.
A lightweight wall screens off the second story of the two-story-high stairwell, which curves up past intact torchiers and other fixtures.
Terreform's plans for a vast site covering Brooklyn's Navy Yard shows a densely interwoven fertile fabric of elevated walkways, plazas and buildings made from hybrid composite materials that include engineered animal tissues, living trees, and lightweight manufactured screens, all manicured like a fantastic topiary. .
The company now hopes to reignite interest in very lightweight, touch-screen-enabled laptop computers, called ultrabooks.
Or in the way lightweight flat-screen TVs and iPods have all but eliminated the need for big entertainment units.
PAGE C1 THE PAPERLESS NEWSPAPER Plastic Logic on Monday will publicly introduce its version of an electronic newspaper: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look of a printed newspaper.
